> DNS servers/entries don't have to start with www at all! There are plenty
of
> URL's whcih doesn't (and can't) start with www. E.g., there is a computer
on
> the university here, called studs. If I run a httpd (HTTP daemon) on it
(thus:
> a http server), you should use the URL: http://studs.sci.kun.nl/ to reach
it!
> With 'www' before it, it will not work. No, then it would actually access
the
> computer named "www", instead of "studs"! You can ofcourse make it work
with
> www to do some aliassing.... But in general it's nonsense that all URL's
start
> with 'www' and browsers shouldn't put 'www' in front of the URL
automaticly.
> The browsers I use don't do that! Lynx and Netscape 3.01 (Unix) don't.
Well okay but if an URL is not found at least Internet Explorer
automatically adds www in front of it.
But anyways nice to know.
> So, to come back to what you're saying:
> > However, did you know you can skip the www in www.phoenix.cjb.net
>
> So, www.xxx.cjb.net is an alias for xxx.cjb.net, which again is an alias
for
> another URL/computer.
Well that could be, but it could also be that only www.xxx.cjb.net exists
and that Internet Explorer automatically tries www.xxx.cjb.net if
xxx.cjb.net is not found. So it could as well be a client-side as a
server-side alias.
> > think the DNS servers support this (have to look that up),
>
> Support what?? Does this make any sense?
No. Sorry. I have just still not looked at the DNS-part of internet (project
"i" is still using IP-adresses only)
> > practically all browsers automatically add www to it
>
> So this is not true, and even not logical to do.
No, I meant something different than I said. I meant that they auto-add www
in front of it if the URL is not found.
> >And the users of browsers who don't do that (I don't know one) will
> >probably know they have to add www to an url if it doesn't start with
> >it.
>
> So, no! No-one has to add 'www' to an URL if it doesn't start with it,
since
> then it would be a different URL!
Yeah yeah okay. All depends on if it's aliased on server- or client-side.
I mean, in Internet Explorer even simply typing yahoo will work! It will
first try yahoo. Won't work. Then tries www.yahoo won't work. Then tries
www.yahoo.com and yes it works! Halleluja!
That's client-side aliasing.
~Grauw
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